QUOTE(lurkingaround)
.For Gentile Christians, God had lovingly exempted them from the burdensome parts of Moses Law or His laws at ACTS.15:19-29 & 21:20-25, ROMANS.14:1-4, eg they did not have to be circumcised, eat only kosher/clean foods, etc. God required them to begin their new born-again spiritual babes-in-Christ lives by keeping just 4 simple, non-burdensome or essential laws of Moses, ie avoid eating blood, strangled animal sacrifice, foods offered to idols and committing sexual immorality. Thereafter, they should gradually learn to keep the other non-burdensome or essential laws of God, especially morality laws, eg the 10 Commandments, DEUT.18:9-14, LEV.10:9, etc. This was how God implanted His laws into the hearts and minds of most new Gentile Christians adults.
In comparison, having easily implanted His laws, God required new Jewish Christians like the 12 apostles, to continue to keep His laws, as many of the 613 laws as possible, because they were not a burden to them.
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QUOTE(unknown warrior @ Oct 11 2019, 08:46 AM)
That is not true. Paul rebuked on the matter of circumcision of them still trying to adhere to one of the 613 laws. Where do you get your theology from?
ACTS.21:20-25 (NKJV) = . 20 And when they heard it, they glorified the Lord. And they said to him, “You see, brother, how many myriads of Jews there are who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law; 21 but they have been informed about you that you teach all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs. 22 What then? The assembly must certainly meet, for they will hear that you have come.
23 Therefore do what we tell you: We have four men who have taken a vow. 24 Take them and be purified with them, and pay their expenses so that they may shave their heads, and that all may know that those things of which they were informed concerning you are nothing,
but that you yourself also walk orderly and keep the law. 25 But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written and decided that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality.”
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GAL.2:6-14 = . 6 But from those who seemed to be something—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God shows personal favoritism to no man—for those who seemed to be something added nothing to me. 7 But on the contrary, when they saw that the gospel for the uncircumcised had been committed to me, as the gospel for the circumcised was to Peter 8 (for He who worked effectively in Peter for the apostleship to the circumcised also worked effectively in me toward the Gentiles), 9 and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that had been given to me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. 10 They desired only that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager to do.
No Return to the Law
11 Now when Peter had come to Antioch, I withstood him to his face, because he was to be blamed; 12 for before certain men came from James, he would eat with the Gentiles; but when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision. 13 And the rest of the Jews also played the hypocrite with him, so that even Barnabas was carried away with their hypocrisy.
14 But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live in the manner of Gentiles and not as the Jews, why do you compel Gentiles to live as Jews? 15 We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles, 16 knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified.
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Paul, John, Peter and James were Jewish Christians who continued to keep the Law. Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, was against James and his party in Jerusalem(= the Judaizers) going around the Jewish diaspora requiring new Gentile Christians to be circumcised and keep all of Moses Law = 613 laws.
....... Paul did not rebuke new Jewish Christians for circumcising their male babies or keeping all of Moses Law. If you think so, you are in error. In fact, Paul even circumcised his disciple Timothy who was half-Jewish. Even today, many US Gentile Christians circumcise their male babies like the Jews, ... but not circumcise them as GC adults, as had been pushed by the Judaizers, led by James. .......
"Many countries with majorities of Christian adherents have low circumcision rates (as in Europe and South America), while both religious and non-religious circumcision is common in some predominantly Christian countries such as the United States, and the Philippines, Canada, and in North Africa and West Africa."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_male_circumcision.
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QUOTE(unknownwarrior)
You do understand the meaning of right and wrong vs good evil and the difference of it?
They are the same in the sight or eyes of God. .......DEUT.6:18-19 =. 18 And you shall do what is
right and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land of which the Lord swore to your fathers, 19 to cast out all your enemies from before you, as the Lord has spoken.
DEUT.12:8-9 = 8 “You shall not at all do as we are doing here today—every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes— 9 for as yet you have not come to the rest and the inheritance which the Lord your God is giving you.
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Moral conscience in Man came from him breaking good God's commandment by eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, at the behest of evil Satan who cunningly impersonated a snake which can speak, ... and not from being built-into him when Adam was created by God. All goodness and righteousness come from God. All evilness and wrongness come from Satan.
....... It's like a good scientist wanting to create a perfect robot with perfect progamming codes. But an evil hacker came along to put in imperfect programming codes in the robot causing it to fall and fail. So, the scientist had to use an anti-virus program to wash away the evil hacker's virus or malware, in order to save his robot.
The Bible has shown the errors of those who had based their lives on their own corruptible moral conscience of what is right and good in their own eyes, and not on what is right and good in the eyes of God = His Word/Law/laws/commandments.
....... These self-righteous Jews and Christians were not much different from the demonic adherents of today's New Age philosophy being taught in many liberal colleges/universities, where all truths are subjective and not objective = everyone is right and good in his/her own eyes........JUDGES.17:5-6 = 5 The man Micah had a shrine, and made an ephod and household idols; and he consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. 6 In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
PROVERBS.12:15 = 15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes,
But he who heeds counsel is wise.
1TIM.4:1-3 = The Great Apostasy
4 Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 speaking lies in hypocrisy,
having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, 3 forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.